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c::: , citizens' candidate 

FOR MAYOR, 

SAMUEL A. GREEN, 




City Election, December 12, 1882. 

Polls Open at 7, A. M. 
Polls Close at 4, P- M. 



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STATEMENT OF FACTS. 



Every honest citizen is aware of the impor- 
tance of keeping Municipal affairs separate from 
political influences. It was on a platform which 
had this principle as a basis that Dr. Green was 
nominated a year ago, and it must be evident to 
all who have watched the course of City affairs 
that he has been, eminently faithful to the trust. 
Never has the public business been conducted 
with a greater freedom from partisan action. 
The Mayor has been straight-forward, inde- 
pendent, and governed solely by the wish to do 
what was best for the welfare of the community. 
He has never acted in deference to the schemes 
of any faction. He has been neither a Demo- 
crat nor a Republican. He has not hampered 
the heads of departments by requests to find 
places for favorites of his own, but has allowed 
them to perform their duties without executive 



interference. In his appointments, he has not 
removed officials except for adequate cause, and, 
to our knowledge, no instance can be shown 
where the successor and the superseded have 
belonged to different parties. The Corridors of 
City Hall have ceased to be a lounging place for 
politicians, and the Municipal affairs have been 
managed soundly, quietly, and honestly. What 
more do our citizens desire? And is it not of 
vital importance that such a man should remain 
in office? What is the alternative? 

The alternative is an avowed party administra- 
tion of municipal affairs. It is the professed 
desire of a particular faction to obtain possession 
of the City Government, as a means of political 
capital. They want to use the public offices as 
rewards for the services of their friends. So 
shrewd an observer as Mr. Hugh J. Toland (who 
was recently defeated in his partisan movement 
to oust from office our present Register of Deeds) 
remarks : " The Democratic party are in a 
majority in this City, and ought to have the 
patronage; and they are bound to have it, too !" 
There is the whole situation in a nut-shell. They 
want to turn out a man who has been honest, and 



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capable, and acceptable to the community, from 
his very indifference to party politics, in order 
that they may have a Mayor and Board of Alder- 
men who will see to it that only citizens of a 
certain stripe have any rights that need redress- 
ing. Do the inhabitants of Boston wish this? 
Do they wish to see the management of our 
finances, and taxes, and most vital interests, pass 
out of the control of experienced and faithful 
officials into that of persons who will be expected 
to use the positions for all they are worth politi- 
cally? If so, let them vote in favor of a partisan 
City Government, for the motto of this political 
movement is "a clean sweep of offices." 

No one in either party can point to an instance 
of partisan behavior on the part of Dr. Green. 
He has pursued the course of making no dis- 
tinctions of any kind. All classes of citizens, 
all nationalities, have been alike to him. "Show 
me a first-class man, that's what I want," has 
been his unfailing comment. Such names as 
Michael Carney, Registrar of Voters, John E. 
Fitzgerald, of the Fire Commission, Dexter 
A. Tompkins, Sealer of Weights and Measures, 
Dr. Jenks and Mr. Burley, of the Police 



Commission, testify to the fact that he has been 
scrupulously regardless of party affiliations in 
his appointments. 

The act of primary importance on the part 
of his administration has been the removal of 
Police Commissioners, a proceeding which gave 
great satisfaction to almost all citizens. The 
Mayor illustrated thereby his complete indepen- 
dence, and disappointed the expectation of some 
who desired to find in him an amiable figure- 
head. The blow fell none too soon, for it is an 
open secret that the bill introduced in the State 
Legislature, to establish a Metropolitan Police, 
would certainly have been pushed to a passage, 
but for this prompt action. Owing to a preva- 
lent feeling of dissatisfaction regarding the police 
administration of the Cit}^ a special Committee 
of the City Council had been appointed to 
investigate the subject. This Committee had 
submitted a majority report recommending the 
removal of the Commissioners, and this report 
was referred by the Council to the Mayor for 
action. After a careful reading of the evidence, 
and a thorough further inquiry on his part, 
he decided to remove the Commissioners. In 



answer to the objections of some, that the 
Mayor should have given the officials thus 
dismissed an opportunity for personal explana- 
tion, it may be said that, at their examination 
before the Committee, every facility was offered 
them for so doing, and Dr. Green was satisfied 
after reading the evidence that to give currency 
to the same would be injurious to the public 
morals. 

The conduct of affairs by the new board of 
Police Commissioners has given general satis- 
faction. After the looseness of the previous 
reghiie it is but natural that complaints of strin- 
gency should be heard in certain quarters ; but 
those most interested testify to the unfailing 
justice and honesty of the Commission. The 
laws as they exist have been carried out without 
favoritism, and is not that what our citizens 
desire from those who control the police regula- 
tions of the City ? It is a significant fact that 
the receipts from liquor licenses for 1882-83 
show, up to date, an excess of $22,034 over 
the same period the preceding year. The num- 
ber of licenses issued by the present board has 
been about the same, but those of a more expen- 



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sive class (innholders'), show a marked diminu- 
tion. This item of Finance is more eloquent 
than words. 

But apart from considerations of his use- 
fulness and independence in public affairs, who 
does not know the warm sympathy and broad 
Catholic kindness of our Mayor in private fields? 
For ten years City Physician, he has probably 
a more intimate knowledge of the poor, and 
a firmer hold upon their heart-strings, than any 
man in the community. His home is, and has 
been for a long period, in Kneeland Street, and 
there, in the very midst of the suffering classes, 
he has ever been ready to listen to any tale of 
sorrow or discouragement, answer any request 
for counsel or comfort from the lips of the needy. 
He is widely known and respected as a physi- 
cian of high standing and experience, and a 
critical scholar in various lines of research. In 
the War of the Rebellion, he served as a Surgeon 
with distinction, and his name is to-day a syn- 
onym with his army comrades for all that is 
most endearing. Many an old soldier counts 
Dr. Green among his most precious friends. 
He most worthily represents that integrity, 



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chanty, and patriotism typical of our best New 
England life. 

Boston is one of the few cities that has remained 
free from the evils of "boss" government. The 
" spoils system " has thus far always been rebuked 
by our votes. We are this year threatened with 
an avowed attempt to introduce partisan rule in 
this municipality, which, once established, it will 
be difficult to eradicate. All good citizens 
should rally at the Polls upon Election Day, 
and, by voting for Dr. Samuel A. Green, save 
our City from this menaced misfortune. Every 
ballot is of value, for defeat means the overthrow 
of pure government in Boston. 



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The undersigned, feeling a deep interest in 
the preservation of the good name of the City 
of Boston, and in a clean and reputable adminis- 
tration of Municipal affairs, appeal to all their 
fellow-citizens, regardless of party, to rally to 
the support of our present efficient Mayor, Dr. 
Samuel A. Green, at the Polls on Tuesday, 
December 12th. 



CHARLES A. WELCH. 
WM. ENDICOTT, Jr. 
^HENRY L. HIGGINSON. 
JAMES STURGIS. 
BERNARD JENNY. 
NELSON BARTLETT. 
THOS. J. WHIDDEN. 
ROGER WOLCOTT. 
FRED. PEASE. 
JONA. A. LANE. 
CLINTON VILES. 
HAMILTON A. HILL. 
GEO. WM. BOND. 
GEO. L. THORNDIKE. 
WM. H. BALDWIN. 
CHAS. H. ALLEN. 
E. E. PARKER. 
GEO. BATY BLAKE. 
HUTCHINS & WHEELER. 



HENRY P. KIDDER. 

GEO. C. RICHARDSON. 

HENRY L. PIERCE. 

HENRY W. DANIELL. 

JACOB A. DRESSER. 

ALEX. WADSWORTH. 

URIEL CROCKER. 

JOEL GOLDTHWAIT & CO. 

A. L. HASKELL & SON. 

S. T. SNOW. 

PHINEAS PIERCE. 

SOLOMON CARTER. 

J. W. BALCH. 

W. H. FORBES. 

M. R. WENDELL. 

GEO. WIGGLESWORTH. 

HENRY LEE. 

HUGH COCHRANE. 

HENRY WHITMAN. 



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RICE, KENDALL & CO. 
JAMES L. LITTLE. 
S. P. DEXTER. 
SAMUEL C. COBB. 
GEO. HIGGINSON. 
JOHN JEFFRIES. 
N. P. HAMLIN. 
J. B. THOMAS. 
EDWARD S. TOBEY. 
O. W. PEABODY. 
JOHN C. PHILLIPS. 
S. W. RICHARDSON. 
HENRY B. ROGERS. 
THOMAS MACK. 
E. FARNSWORTH. 
ISAAC SWEETSER. 
JOHN C. ROPES. 
JOHNSON, MOODY & CO. 
FREDERICK D. ALLEN. 
GEORGE N. BLISS, Jk. 
CHAS. A. SPAULDING. 
J. B. POTTER. 
EMERY SOUTHER. 
E. G. KNIGHT. 
CLAFLIN & BROl^N. 
GEO. W. CHAPIN. 
GEORGE DUNBAR. 
GEO. D. EDMANDS. 
WARREN SAWYER. 
BENJ. F. STEVENS. 
WM. GRAY. 



NASH, SPAULDING & CO. 
WILLIAM PERKINS. 
THOS. B. HARRIS. 
LEE, HIGGINSON & CO. 
CHARLES FAIRCHILD. 
H. C. WAINWRIGHT. 
WILLIAM P. KUHN. 
GEORGE THACHER. 
F. L. RICHARDSON. 
E. L. TEAD. 

B. W. NICHOLS. 

C. 0. BILLINGS. 
CHARLES B. CUMINGS. 
GEORGE A. KETTELL. 
JOHN C. HOWE. 
ALBERT MORSE. 

E. DALE. 

R. GARDNER CHASE. 
JAMES DANA. 
W. G. RUSSELL. 
NORTH, FISKE & CO. 
J. R. BROWNELL. 
PAUL F. FOLSOM. 
PIERCE, HARDY & CO. 
CHAS. H. HOOPER. 
ALBERT METCALF. 
JOS. M. GIBBENS. 
JOHN HOMANS. 

F. C. LORING. 

E. LAWRENCE, Jr. 
DWIGHT FOSTER. 



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For Mayor, ™^^^^^^ 065 578 8< 

SAMUEL A. GR^^x^. 



For Aldermen, 

DANIEL D. KELLY. ANDREW J. HALL. 

JOSEPH CALDWELL. JESSE HOLBROOK. 

WILLIAM J. WELCH. PAUL H. KENDRICKEN. 

LUCIUS SLADE. NATHAN G. SMITH. 

THOMAS N. HART. SOLOMON B. STEBBINS. 

CHARLES H. HERSEY. LABAN PRATT. 

For Street Commissioner, 

NEWTON TALBOT. 

For School Committee, 

Three Years. 
F. LYMAN WINSHIP. LIBERTY D. PACKARD. 
JAMES A. FLEMING. E. F. SPAULDING. 

GEORGE M. HOBBS. DAN S. SMALLEY. 

GEORGE B. HYDE. WILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON. 

Two Years. 
Mrs. EMILY A. FIFIELD. 



Election, Tuesday, Decemter 12, 1882. 

Polls open at 7, A. M. 
Polls close at 4, P. M, 



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